| HOTHEAD | Stolen by chief, a daredevil (7) |
| EGGHEAD | Urge on the chief, a boffin through and through (7) |
| LEADING | Chief, a big noise entering stage (7) |
| PONTIAC | Famed 18th-century Ottawa chief, a great leader of inter-tribal resistance against British rule in the Great Lakes area (7) |
| CHANCES | A daredevil takes them |
| NOHANDS | Cry from a daredevil cyclist |
| REDBELT | Part of a Daredevil costume |
| MAILMAN | US postal worker, originally law graduate, taken in by chief (7) |
| TIPOFFS | Was point taken by chief superintendent as a result of these discreet warnings? |
| AGAUCHE | Capital banked by chief, he left for France |
| PLEADER | Pressure by chief barrister presenting case |
| ROMAINE | Lettuce and eggs sliced by chief |
| STARCHY | Stuffy farm building opened by chief |
| BADDEBT | By chief of business's tally, lousy bet leads to unrecoverable money (3,4) |
| PRINCIPAL | From the Latin for "first, chief", a headmaster/mistress; a leading actor, dancer or instrumentalist; or, one of the combatants in a duel (9) |
| COPPERHEAD | Policeman finds chief a crawler (10) |
| BOSSANOVA | Dance with the chief, a star (5,4) |
| SACHEM | Native American chief, a sagamore (6) |
| BEAST | Chief's a monster (5) |
| TIM | The Chief, a former ITV crime series starring ... Pigott-Smith and Martin Shaw, used Norwich, Yarmouth and Gorleston as filming locations (3) |
